Requiel wrote:It's not the same thing and you don't need your own buffbot to play. I'd say that you don't need buffbots at all (I don't have one) but your mileage clearly varies and my playstyle is likely very different to yours.
Simple equation on this Requiel, and please don't take this the wrong way matey because I have no arguement with you.
Mainstream RvR=buffs to play or feed other people realm points. (Personally I don't find it fun trying to play for five hours competitively and earning 1000 realm points because I got lucky. Doing the realm missions is only fun for a little while and now most just do them because of the time of day they are playing and there is actually no realm vs realm play in the map)
PvE = do not need bb to play but can be slow, most people have buffbots so grouping is very unlikely unless people raid items for their templates. That's not exactly fun either.
which finally = Yes you can play this game without a buffbot but it is not likely going to be very much fun for you. And the whole point of games is that they are supposed to be fun, which for me Dark Age of Camelot is not any more and the reason why I beta test games now for other companies so that I can have some valid input into new games where the dev's actually listen to their beta testers first and implement the right changes for a workable game.
If I ever managed to get an opportunity to beta test future Mythic releases for this game I would jump at the chance but that's not likely to happen.
In the old days I could play my Ranger quite well without buffs and on self buffs in RvR with the obvious adaptation of playstyle. And yeah, I could play my nightshade in non-mainstream RvR ie Darkness Falls. But sadly since the game has gotten a whole lot more complex it is neither viable or an option any more because people are always buffed to the hilt. The population of Darkness falls dramatically fell after the introduction of Catacombs and even before then it was dwindling with the arrival of TOA - all obvious as to the reasons why this happened sure. Sadly Darkness rising did not have the impact on the Darkness Falls population that I had hoped it would do, but you cannot force people to play in one area of the game and such an idea now with the game as it lies in pure folly at such a suggestion.
And to be honest, after much time spent talking to your RightNow team finding bugs, it suddenly dawned on me that was all I was really doing in the game because it was the only thing left I could really do. That's not fun either, it's unpaid work
